Adult Quotes

Adult Quote of the day

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected.

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight—a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.

There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong.

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome.

Other than the voices in my head, I think I’m pretty normal.

I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.

To be adult is to be alone.

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.

I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.

Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared.

Anger is easier than forgiveness.

I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

People in the know say The Giver was the first young adult dystopian novel.

Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Dont wait 'cause right now is the oldest you've ever been & the youngest you'll be ever again

I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.

What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because that is what church people do. That is not what God has called us to do.

A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal.

Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like you have loved me.

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

The best things in life are crazy.

As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.